Pessimism over finances pervades the outlook for education in 1976, as shown in a preview of this year's top education issues in each state. (Author/MLF)

A sampling of a dozen states showed that virtually all of them have interim committees on education. The diversity in structures and issues among these committees is summarized. (Author/MLF)

New Mexico legislator proposes a tuition tax credit plan for individual taxpayers. (MK)

A State-by-State preview of the major educational issues facing State legislatures in 1975. (JG)

Federal support is in decline, and the future prospects are for further decline. The rise and fall of elites in this country will be determined in large by the choices of youth who accept or reject the opportunity to be educated. (Author/JN)

Explains rationale for program to purchase secular educational services with State funds as a method for aiding private schools in Illinois. (MK)

Reviews major trends in state legislation affecting education in 1975, with particular emphasis on a number of states that either substantially increased state support for education (such as Texas), or initiated major new educational programs (such as Colorado), despite the financial pressures of inflation and recession. (JG)

Faced with a December deadline imposed by the State's highest court, New Jersey's legislature will soon convene in an extraordinary special session to consider a controversial proposal for changing the State's system of financing public education. Discusses that proposal and the current system for school finance. (Author/JF)

A major restructuring of public education for young children underway in California is committed to the idea that the first eight years of a child's life are the most important in determining the future success of all citizens. (Author/JN)

Educators, legislators, and school chiefs register their reactions to the Rodriguez case and the Supreme Court's decision regarding it. (Author/JN)

From the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Education Commission of the States (3rd, Denver, Colorado, July 7-9, 1969).

California Assembly Bill 65, recently signed into law, provides comprehensive legislation for education policy that, by attacking a myriad of educational problems, may serve as a model bill for other states to follow. (Author/MLF)

Recounts experiences in Kansas in resolving the school finance crisis. (Author/MLF)

Discusses the effects of recent Maryland legislation which gave that state full fiscal responsibility for all new school building construction. (JF)